Talking Back to the Research: Indigenous Wellbeing and Resilience Narratives from Urban Australia

Figures & data

Table 1. Employment, homeownership and educational attainment of interviewees compared to national Australian data.

	Interviewees at 30 years, n = 11 (2013–2014) %	Indigenous people nationally (2011–2013) %
Currently employed	91%^a	60% (a)
Homeownership	27%	36% (b)
Completed secondary school (Year 12) or above	100%	46% (a)

Note: National data comes from (a) the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey 2012–2013 and includes Indigenous adults aged 20 years and over; (b) the Australian 2011 Census; (see AIHW 2015).

^a One interviewee not currently employed but studying.

Table 2. Comparison of family income and maternal educational attainment at baseline for interviewees and all Mater-University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP) participants.

	Interviewees (N = 11) %	MUSP cohort (n = 7223) %
Family income below poverty line at baseline^a	44%	34%
Maternal secondary education incomplete (year 10) at baseline	18%	18%

^a Poverty at time of data collection = $10399 or less.

Figure 1. Interviewees were recruited from an existing birth cohort study, the Mater University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy.

AIHW. 2015. The Health and Welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: An Overview: 2015. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

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